Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (AF)

Mangalore, Feb 16: Corporation Bank Officers’ Organisation (CBOO) will organise a symposium on whither reforms in banking at the CBOO centre here on Saturday February 17 at 3.30 pm.

Addressing a press conference here on Thursday February 16, CBOO president T R Bhat said that the symposium will be inaugurated by Corporation Bank chairman and managing director B Sambamurthy.

The symposium will give public a chance to interact with the members of the Independent Commission on Banking and Finance Policy that had released its report on status of banking reforms in November 2006.

Mumbai EPW Research Foundation director S L Shetty and Syndicate Bank former chairman and managing director N K Thingalaya are expected to participate in the symposium while Centre for Rural Studies director Krishna Lothai, Economics writer K K Ammannaya and Shantha Raju of All India Bank Officers’ Confederation will take part in the discussions in the presence of Mangalore University department of Economics chairman Prof G V Joshi as moderator.

Among those present at the press meet were CBOO general secretary D N Prakash, vice-president Kaushik Kumar Ghosh, deputy general secretary Raghunath Kodikal and treasurer Narahari Kumar.